Bel Trew is The Independent's award-winning Chief International Correspondent, photographer and documentary filmmaker currently based in Berlin. Bel has covered events across the Middle East since the start of the Arab Spring in 2011, reporting on uprisings and wars from South Sudan to Yemen, Iraq to Syria. With a background in both the Gulf and Eastern Europe, she has since widened her scope to covering news events across the globe, including Ukraine, including the original documentary 'The Body in the Woods'. Bel was named Foreign Reporter of the Year at the UK Press Awards and also won the Marie Colvin Award. She has lived across the Middle East from Cairo to Beirut.